The Care Certificate

The Care Certificate Standards have been introduced as a mandatory induction for all new starters in care and health settings, replacing the Common Induction Standards in 2015.

The aim of the Care Certificate Standards is to ensure all support workers build a firm foundation of knowledge and skills in their first 12 weeks, which can then be built upon throughout their career. Completing the Care Certificate can also be beneficial to existing support workers at any stage of their career.

After assessment and successful completion of all 15 Standards the learner will be awarded the Care Certificate.

The 15 Standards are:

Understand your role

Your personal development

Duty of care

Equality and diversity

Work in a person centred way

Communication

Privacy and dignity

Fluids and nutrition

Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disability

Safeguarding Adults

Safeguarding Children

Basic Life Support

Health and Safety

Handling information

Infection prevention and control

The Care Certificate also provides evidence towards the completion and achievement of subsequent Health and Social Care qualifications during the ongoing training and development of the support worker.

Overall goal of the Care Certificate:

To provide clear evidence to employers and people who receive care and support that support workers have been trained and developed to a specific set of standards and have been assessed for the skills, knowledge and behaviours to ensure the provision of compassionate, high quality care and support.

The Care Certificate also reflects how these behaviours are underpinned by the 6Cs:

Care

Compassion

Competence

Communication

Courage

Commitment

Homes Caring for Autism is committed to the training, development, knowledge, competence and professionalism of all its employees. We achieve this through our long term investment in staff training and development, which is now underpinned by the new Care Certificate and a programme of continuous personal development.

About us

Having continually expanded our growth since Homes Caring for Autism started operating in 2003, we now operate residential services across Somerset, North Somerset and Wiltshire, and further growth is on-going.

The strong growth experienced is the result of Homes Caring for Autism's demonstrable ability to work successfully with people whose autism, learning disability and, in many cases, other complex needs, create high levels of anxiety, difficulties with communication and very physically and verbally challenging behaviour. Our services have a rare level of expertise in those areas and over 50% of the individuals placed with us come as a result of the breakdown of services with other providers.